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Education, mental abilities and stock market participation

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  • Tarvo Vaarmets

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In our recent work (Vaarmets, Liivamägi and Talpsepp (2014)), we offer strong evidences that people with higher mental abilities are more likely to participate in the stock market. We dig deeper into the behaviour of individual investors and can give a more precise picture how education and mental abilities are connected with stock market participation. The results show that being good at math and physics raises the market participation probability the most, and investors achieve significantly higher results in their national final high school exams than non-investors. Thus, we conclude that investors with higher intellect are more likely to participate in the stock market and investors are not only more educated as found in previous studies, but also outsmart other people in every field, including both so called soft and hard sciences. Abstract in Estonian:Investorid hiilgavad vaimsete võimetegaTarvo VaarmetsOma hiljutises uurimistöös (Vaarmets, Liivamägi ja Talpsepp (2014)) anname põhjaliku ülevaate, kuidas vaimsed võimed mõjutavad aktsiaturul osalemist. Meie uurimustöö peamine panus on senisest oluliselt põhjalikum ja täpsem käsitlus hariduse, vaimsete võimete ning börsil osalemise vahelistest seostest. Me näitame, et investorid saavutavad riigieksamitel märkimisväärselt kõrgemaid tulemusi kui inimesed, kes aktsiaid ei oma. See on kooskõlas ka meie põhipanusega – meie töö annab selge sõnumi, et kõrgemate vaimsete võimetega inimesed osalevad aktsiaturul tõenäolisemalt kui vaimselt vähem võimekad inimesed. Seejuures avaldub kirjeldatud efekt eriti selgelt matemaatika ja füüsika puhul – mida suuremad on võimed matemaatikas ja füüsikas, seda tõenäolisemalt omatakse ka aktsiaid. Samuti näitame, et investorid ei ole mitte ainult haritumad nagu eelnevates uurimustes tõestatud, vaid investorid ületavad teisi inimesi oma vaimsete võimete poolest igal alal – sealhulgas nii inseneri- kui ka humanitaarteadustes. Artikkel on PDF versioonis eesti keeles: vaatamiseks vali link Full Text: PDF

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  • Tarvo Vaarmets, 2014. "Education, mental abilities and stock market participation," TUT Economic Research Series 18, Department of Finance and Economics, Tallinn University of Technology.
  • Handle: RePEc:ttu:tuteco:18
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